Daines: NSA Reforms "Woefully Short."

Montana's Republican Congressman Steve Daines sent a press release criticizing proposed reforms to the National Security Agency’s mass data collection program. The reforms, proposed by the House Intelligence Committee and the Obama administration,  “fall woefully short of providing needed protections for Montanans’ civil liberties,” Representative Daines said in his release.

This week, the House Intelligence Committee and President Obama will introduce separate proposals addressing the NSA’s bulk meta-data program. According to his release, Daines called the reforms inadequate and reaffirmed his call for a complete end to the forced blanket collection of Americans’ telephone records for dragnet intelligence purposes.

The press release points out that In November, Daines helped introduce H.R. 3361, the USA Freedom Act, which increases transparency, protects Americans from bulk collection of their communications records and requires the government to more aggressively filter and discard information about Americans accidentally collected through PRISM and related programs.